Corn-husker.



No. 769,575. PATENTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

E. VLADESCU.

CORN HUSKER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 27. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

INVENTOR H ER ATTO R N'EY 5 Patented September 6, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT UEFIcE.

EMI'LIE V LADESCU, ()F (irARA NUCET, ROUMANIA.

CORN-HUSKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,575, dated.September 6, 1904.

Application filed February 2'7, 1904. Serial No. 195,650. (No model.)

Be it known that 1, Emma Vmonson, born Tni ass, generals widow, asubject of the King of Itoumania. and a resident of (.irara Nucet,Kingdom of Roumania, have invented a certain new and useful Improved(lorn-IIusker, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to make and use the same.

The present invention has for its object an apparatus by means of whichthe leaves surrounding the ears of maize may be quickly and easilyremoved.

In the arrangements known up to the present, in which the leavessurrounding the ears of maize are cut through near to the stem by meansof a cylindrical cutting-tool and afterward separated from the lowerportion of the car by a special stripping apparatus, the arrangement ofthe stripper, which is movably joined to the cutting-tool and capable ofbeing adjusted according to the size of the ear,

does not properly fulfilits object, because for different sizes of earsof maize there would be also, owing to the different thicknesses of thestems. corresponding and adjustable cylindrical cutting-tools for takinghold of the stems.

In the present invention the cutting and stripping tools'connected witheach other have been fixed rigidly to one tool-head, so that byexchanging the tool-heads, which are fastened in any suitable knownmanner to the drivingshaft, tools may be used which correspond to thesize of the maize-ears. This tool-head is surrounded by a safety-guardwhich prevents the hand of the laborer coming in contact with the toolswhen feeding the cars.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is a section of the apparatusaccording to the present invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of theapparatus shown in Fig. 1. the action of the stripper upon the leaves ofthe maize, and Fig. +L is a sectional view of a modification.

In the frame 1 of the apparatus the shaft 2 is reposing in the box Atone end of the shaft there is fixed, combined with it in any Fig. 3shows suitable manner, the head 4, carrying the tools. In the center ofthis latter there is fixed a cylinder 5, provided at its end withsawteeth, while at the circular edge of the head. at there are fixed thelarge teeth 6, which may be of any suitable shape and form the stripper.In order to prevent the hand of the laborer coming in contact with therotating tools and for the guiding of the maize-ear fed into theapparatus, a cylinder 7 is provided, surrounding the head 1, whichreposes in the frame 1 and slides freely on the box 3, being kept in itsposition surrounding the tool-head by means of a spring 8, which at theone side has its support at the frame 1 and acts in opposition to thefeed direction of the car. At the other end of the shaft Qthere is acircular saw 9, by means of which the maize-stems are being cut off fromthe maize-ears fed into the apparatus on the frame 1, which in that parthas been shaped into the guide 10.

The driving of the pulley 11, fixed onto the shaft 2, may be effected inany suitable manner, either by treadle, lever-driving, motordriving, orthe like.

In the mode of execution shown in Fig. -L the end of the shaft 2 isconical and the toolhead at is pressed on the same. The cylindersurrounding the tool-head 7 is arranged in a support 13, which can by.known means be moved and fixed at pleasure in the frame of theapparatus in such a manner that it reposes on two plates 12, which closeup the bore of the support, the diameter of which is larger than that ofthe cylinder'T. An annnlarshoulder 11 of the cylinder 7 and the spring,which on one side is supported by this shoulder and on the other side byone of the plates 12, are endeavoring to keep the cylinder in its properposition.

The action of the apparatus is as follows: The ear of the maize is inthe first place fed onto the guide 10 of the circular saw and is therecut off at the stem. After this the ear is fed into the cylinder 7 andpressed against the cylinder-saw 5, which cuts through all the leaves.The teeth of the stripper now seize the cut leaves, detach them from theear, and throw them against the inner wall of the cylinder 7. Whenafterward the leaf-covering is Withdrawn with the maize-ear, the latterdrops out of the former.

I claim 1. A corn-husker, comprising a revolving tool-head, a cuttingtool and a concentric leaves-loosening tool both mounted on saidtool-head, a protecting-cylinder surrounding said tools, a supportadapted to receive said cylinder in its bore, and a spring to normallyhold the cylinder in position surrounding the tools.

2. In an apparatus for freeing the maizeear from its surrounding leavesthe combination of a revolvingtool-head, a leaves-cutting tool and aleaves-loosening tool, concentric to and rigidly secured to suchtool-head, a protecting-cylinder surrounding the latter, a

spring holding such cylinder in its proper po- EMILIE (VEUVE GENERAL)VLADESCU.

Witnesses:

A. RosENsTmN, Z. NADLER.

